Posted on 02/07/2024 3:39:29 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
A news story about the hacking of three million smart toothbrushes to create a massive botnet used to launch a distributed denial of service cyberattack against a Swiss organization has gone viral. However, many in the information security industry, including myself, have trouble finding evidence to support the story.
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“smart” toothbrushes?
Just when you think you’ve heard all kinds of idiocy........
OMG - my toothbrush, my terlit, my toaster oven, and my refrigerator are all out to get me. I knew I could hear them muttering late at night...
Big Brother needs to know if we’ve been brushing or not.
Never let them know you have any extra cash. They will immediately develop an expensive problem that will take all your extra plus a bit.
“They wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do...”
Some stories are so good they don’t need to actually be true.
My refrigerator tased me when I tried to get another beer.
This was started by Bartlett Finchley. I’m surprised nobody knew this already.
I'm having some very disturbing visuals on this I'm afraid.
“Alexa, play Bruno Mars, please.”
“No.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3mmF-JGk_o
Sci-Fi Short Film: “Singularity Stories Vol. I”
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